Attorney General Pam Bondi asked the U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York to unseal grand jury transcripts from the Jeffrey Epstein prosecution.
The move comes after the Wall Street Journal published a story about President Donald Trump supposedly sending Epstein a crude birthday letter.
Trump blew up over the story, telling everyone he directed Bondi to release “pertinent” grand jury testimony if the court allows it.
Bondi mentioned the June 6 memo, which described an “an exhaustive review” of all holdings related to Epstein.
“The Memorandum detailed the steps taken by the Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation to determine whether evidence existed that could predicate an investigation into uncharged third parties,” wrote Bondi. “As the Memorandum concluded, no such evidence was uncovered during the review.”
The memo only increased everyone’s interest because we could not believe the DOJ and FBI didn’t have anything, especially since Bondi once said the client list was on her desk.
Bondi asked the court to unseal grand jury transcripts from two dates:
On July 2, 2019, a grand jury sitting in the Southern District of New York returned an indictment charging Epstein with sex trafficking offenses.
On June 29, 2020, a grand jury sitting in the Southern District of New York charged Epstein’s longtime confidant, Ghislaine Maxwell, with numerous offenses related to the trafficking and coercion of minors.
Bondi acknowledged that grand jury proceedings are usually secret, but there have been exceptions due to special circumstances, as ruled by the Supreme Court in 1997.
“Historical interest by the public” is one of those circumstances.
SCOTUS wrote that courts retain “discretion to determine ‘whether such an interest outweighs the countervailing interests in privacy and secrecy[.]’”
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